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3 Stocks Pulling The Consumer Goods Sector Downward

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All three major indices are trading down today with the
Dow Jones Industrial Average (
^DJI) trading down 86 points (-0.5%) at 16,084 as of Friday, April 11, 2014, 12:55 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,014 issues advancing vs. 1,941 declining with 158 unchanged.

TheStreet would like to highlight 3 stocks pushing the sector lower today:

3.
Colgate-Palmolive Company (
CL) is one of the companies pushing the Consumer Goods sector lower today. As of noon trading, Colgate-Palmolive Company is down $0.38 (-0.6%) to $65.56 on average volume. Thus far, 2.1 million shares of Colgate-Palmolive Company exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.5 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $65.44-$66.27 after having opened the day at $65.76 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $65.94.

Colgate-Palmolive Company, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets consumer products worldwide. The company operates in two segments: Oral, Personal and Home Care; and Pet Nutrition. Colgate-Palmolive Company has a market cap of $60.3 billion and is part of the consumer non-durables industry. Shares are up 1.1% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 5 analysts that rate Colgate-Palmolive Company a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 12 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates
Colgate-Palmolive Company as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, expanding profit margins, increase in stock price during the past year and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated. Get the full
Colgate-Palmolive Company Ratings Report now.